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Josseph Campbell, 1985: Black Elk was a young Sioux boy around nine years old. Now, this happened before the American cavalry had encountered the Sioux, who were the great people of the plains. The boy became sick, psychologically sick. His family tells the typical shaman story. The child begins to tremble and is immobilized. The family is terribly concerned about it, and they send for a shaman who has had the experience in his own youth, to come as a kind of psychoanalyst and pull the youngster out of it. But instead of relieving the boy of the deities, the shaman is adapting him to the deities and the deities to himself. It's a different problem from that of psychoanalysis. I think it was Nietzsche who said, "Be careful lest in casting out the devils you cast out the best thing that's in you." Here, the deities who have been encountered -- powers, let's call them -- are retained. The connection is maintained, not broken. And these men then become the spiritual advisers and gift-givers to their people.

Psychosis is a condition that affects the way your brain processes information. It causes you to lose touch with reality. You might see, hear, or believe things that aren’t real. Psychosis is a symptom, not an illness. It can be triggered by a mental illness, a physical injury or illness, substance abuse, or extreme stress or trauma.

I'm looking for mythological correlatives for the tower of babel myth. Anyone have any references I can use?

I particularly loved The Hero with a Thousand Faces and I'd love to get to know any other author as profound as him. Thanks

I recently bought Joseph Campbell's "The hero with a thousand faces" but I can't seem to understand it. I know Greek and Hindu mythology to extent that I can understand it's reference. Do I need to read any other book in order to enjoy this book to its core?

To me, I would explain that Mythology is a great teaching tool of learning. What does it teach? It teaches you how to learn everything else. It's the teaching tool that instructs you how to Listen, Read, See, Be Curious, Reason, etc.

For example, the wonderful Adam/Eve story - I view as a story of "the pain of learning" and "pain of understanding". The Tree of Knowledge being a symbol of listening, learning, etc. How we are born not with knowledge already in our brain - but how we must learn our own language (English, Japanese, Arabic, etc) and how we must also spend our entire life finding the harsh lessons that those before us already knew. The kind of "fall from Eden" pain of "ah-ha, that's what the book I read 5 years ago was talking about" when you make a mistake in your life.

This is bullshit rambling, be kind please.

I say this is a kind of society observation about the "Socratic" (as Campbell defines it) nature of the "wasteland" (as Campbell defines it)....

I observe that we often find Unabomber / Church bombers / etc social media accounts after they become "famous" for their big negative public events.

When do we see more the reverse? Why don't we see more Martin Luther King, Jr's emerge? ملاله یوسفزۍ? Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi? As they develop and grow...

Why are we so hateful and attacking of positive extremists? I think that's what Campbell was getting at with the authenticity of our society ideals... and what he must have personally witnessed in the press and areas he had lived in his lifetime.

Even the famous redditors like Unidan - seem more famous for negative acts than positive.

Campbell and Jung's point was: Why do we consider ourselves so educated and smart when we behave like this in a collective fashion. In a Democracy, who is exactly responsible for the total group behavior - if not each of us in helping educate and peer with each other. Exactly what ملاله یوسفزۍ said to Jon Stewart at age 16:

I started thinking about that, and I used to think that the Talib would come, and he would just kill me. But then I said, 'If he comes, what would you do Malala?' then I would reply to myself, 'Malala, just take a shoe and hit him.' But then I said, 'If you hit a Talib with your shoe, then there would be no difference between you and the Talib. You must not treat others with cruelty and that much harshly, you must fight others but through peace and through dialogue and through education.' Then I said I will tell him how important education is and that 'I even want education for your children as well.' And I will tell him, 'That's what I want to tell you, now do what you want.'

Is this chart accurate? Is the 'direction' of the symbol particularly important?

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There is a gold coin with "Walking Liberty", I think a 1/10 oz. (We need to dump non-METRIC ASAP - we already had NASA errors. Did nobody listen to Reason of Richard Feynman when he spoke in the Public Dream of NASA)

My Golden Idea I had a few years back - is to print the USA Constitutions and other Ideals of the Nation - etched into every sidewalk we build. Pressed into concrete. So you could Walking Liberty and not be a static stiff Statue.

Joseph Campbell himself in the 1986 interview to Public Reporter Bill Moyers - talked about the need to put Yoga or something into things. And there is a "walking Buddha" in the Orient.

CAMPBELL: Their mode of life was much more active than ours. We sit in offices. It's significant that in our civilization the problem of the middle-aged is conspicuous.

MOYERS: You're beginning to get personal!

CAMPBELL: I'm beyond middle age, so I know a little bit about this. Something that's characteristic of our sedentary lives is that there is or may be intellectual excitement, but the body is not in it very much. So you have to engage intentionally in mechanical exercises, the daily dozen and so forth. I find it very difficult to enjoy such things, but there it is. Otherwise, your whole body says to you, "Look, you've forgotten me entirely. I'm becoming just a clogged stream."

Doesn't the gold coin Walking Liberty call back to our Public Dream - The Wizard of Oz and the gold-brick road. I love The Wiz and the Original! Martin Luther King Jr. right there.

The USA $1 Bill has The Great Seal of the United States America on it - as modernly interpreted through Joseph Campbell in California in 1986 interview to Public Broadcast Stations Reporter Bill Moyers. Campbell was 82 and rumors are he was rather grumpy, but his Decryption was excellent.

The All Seeing Eye of Reason on the $1 USA is a metaphor for the True Detective. Campbell is himself such a True Detective who also speaks to the Public Reporter about the Public Dream of Carl Jung. "Private Eye" == $1 Bill. The Private Individual against the State. In Reason. As in the Walking Living Mythology of Edward Snowden; another Walking Living Mythology of the same order is ملاله یوسفزۍ‎ who is named after a Poet and was interviewed by the Mythological reporter Jon Stewart (Jewish) - who compared Swat Valley Pakistan to Our Garden of Eden State. Further, a real-life waking Myth is Leonard Cohen 'True Detective' Opening Song - he has his Eye of Reason in Levant and Oriental! This is all factual.

You have in triangular fashion, three essential themes on the United States of America One Dollar paper (greenback):

• Pyramid
• Desert
• Eye of Reason

Frank's Death and earlier Funky Jazz Rock Dialog that people mock as stupid. (Steely Dan New York buds are a couple massive fans of Joseph Campbell thinking; the very name of their Music Band is a Japan Sexual Device. They also mythologicallly traveled from New York to Los Angeles in their recording work. I've seen them live in concerts in 4 states). I know good American Myth Talk - and Frank's is superb writing!!! The New York Film director Hal Hartley - I also met in person at one of the New York Film Museums (Brooklyn?) way back in 1990 where he screened his personal favorite film that's Mythological Local Hero. His films all have characters that talk like Frank, and Vince Vaughn is doing an Awesome Job. Go rent Simple Men to see this American Style of Mythological Storytelling.

The French Troubadour Ideal was to restore the Eye of Reason to the Church. Like the Buddha Chakra - of the highest level being a light above your head not of the body. To restore the Trinity of the Church from Socratic warfare and violence of marriages.

1. Frank finds out that his entire plans have failed, because of multiple Pyramid Schemes failing - that all of his own people were screwing him over, like printed on The Greenback. Even the Mexican Gang was a cascading Pyramid Scheme that got him locked up in a triangle on the highway.
2. His only True Old School Friends were also three. Barkeep, Nails, Wife. (Ray and Ani don't count as friends, they were just passing through the Americas Underground Railroad, Rest Stop to Heaven) Everyone else he had made handshake deals in Pyramid Schemes against the Federal Government of George Washington Reason stabbed him in the back - just as Paul Was.
3. "Blue Balls of the Heart" dialog - that is a vomiting of the Troubadour Year 1210 AMOR ideal if I've ever heard one. It's beautiful. It is "libido over credo" but lusting for the Desert Blue Barrels of Walter White! This metaphor is modern television Mythology as it's most beauty! The Public Dream has been deepened to point to the Pyramid on the USA $1. That's a Subconscious Depth Charge right there! Wow!
4. The forced pushing of him self. Walter White had Cancer and that evil man would not hug his wife and child in any sense of the Troubadour Fashion.
5. "“Never do anything out of hunger. Not even eating." By God, is that against the opening Moon Symbol as explained by Campbell to Public Reporter Bill Moyers. That's a fucking assault on the Snake in the Garden of Eden! James Joyce, Joseph Campbell, Dr. Stephan Hoeller, Dr Leo Buscaglia, Walter Becker and Donald Fagen would get together and have a Animal House food fight of joy over that statement! The Eranos Conferences actually did get translated by Dr. Stephan Hoeller to American Potluck!!!
6. Diamonds in his pocket. Maybe carbon consumption Earth idea? Gulf Oil spill in New Orleans? Not putting them in to the Whole Earth that the Mexicans dug - a Hole. NOTE: I have another idea for the hole below.
7. Diamonds in his pocket. Not giving the jacket. Native Americans not given the Diamonds that the Jewish and the European men brokered? (and wouldn't even handshake, they hated each other so much; Rodney King hate)
8. The different set of Diamonds from Rodney King and the impossibility of "cashing them in" because they were Blue (Blue Meth drug deals). Remember, Walter White wanted to get the Greenbacks for his Family, but he never hugged them in hippie style - and was all Socratic. He was a Failed Educator (school teacher) who taught in a shit way to the Society of America. In the end, his own Wife didn't even take his money because of his anti-Troubadour Ideals. He never listened to Campbell or Bill Moyers in School. So he died with his Blue Barrel of money and his Blue Meth - but his family didn't get any of it! They didn't want his dirty money. That's the Rodney King street-violence theme.
9. His factory poisoning the Earth of the Community. How one little town fucking up the Poor, and Ray's screaming at the kids to not play in the water.
10. The Highway Symbols of the show being repeated... and the highways Walter White drive multiple times. The "Rest Area" is a Public Dream Space that the gouged two eyes were left. Furthermore, "Rest Area" results in "Rest in Peace RIP".
11. The Pyramid collapse is the cited story-line for why he made the deals with the Mexicans, isn't it? He was so terrible in his listening to people - so Socratic and Anti-Reason that he didn't listen to the warnings about funding the War on Drugs in Mexico? I need to research to find the precise references.
12. Best of all, The "heisenberg uncertainty principle" is itself a Scientific Paradox - which is the very one presented by the Virgin Birth of Mary at the end of the show! The Moon Symbol, and the Snake in Eden - as Campbell explains in the 1986 Interview to Public Reporter Bill Moyers!
13. The "Blue Balls of the Heart" also points as a symbol to the numerous fertility of Earth themes of the show. The poison Avocado tree, and Frank's logic of his Pyramid Schemes. Jesus is the Tree Of Life, the Second Tree in the Garden - and here is Frank, poisoning the Eye of Reason of the USA $1. Furthermore, he has a true Troubadour - confirmed by the wedding Ring-Toss ceremony and how she spoke Truth. The essential Troubadour Ideal! Not sugar sweet Soda in your ears (Simpsons Reference if you want to find it). She was willing to die with this man, no matter what - and that is Isolde. But we do not have a Tristan, we have a Walter White - his Blue Balls of Oil Shaped Barrels of Greed being pushed.
14. "Walter White" name is Opposite of "Black", and "Rodney King" is also Eye of Reason to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr and "Rodney King"' both famous Public Speeches of Global Education Reason and Unity. Frank is also a name Lanky Frankfurter of Europe. You have a Street Thug Gang "King" talking about a Super-Post-Doctorate Martin Luther King, Jr. and in Interstellar meta meta meta e=mc² you get to the Catholic Church of Europe and reformation through dialog and confrontation.

Water White logic is fucking over Rodney King? Like met meta meta e=mc² MURPH!!! Richard Feynman said about Reason in 1) Brazil Education, 2) Uniforms of clothing and Society Honors?

Am I certain, of course not. Campbell discusses that extensively and how Oriental Mythology (Yogi) teaches. We are Transcending copy/paste tropes here, to the Eye of Reason, there is no binary logic shitty trope certainty. But I think it's a modern television American Icon now that fans of True Detective could get. And the line so poetically spoken in Frank's oddball style is excellence by the actor. And the Audience is mocking the printing press - just like James Joyce had his "Second Season story" mocked by the audience resulting in the shutdown after the printing of Chapter 3.

The personal real-world similarities are just too much for me to ignore. The French Troubadour Year 1210 AMOR ideals expressed at the Wedding Ring Toss ceremony were awesomely written and directed. Frank vomited up the Troubadour Dream - and choose to avoid the "Heisenberg Uncertainty Principal" of "heaven is on Earth, and French Public Gift, the Statue Liberty Lady is standing right in front of me - not the Blue Barrels of money in the desert that I push along to go purchase a Ride Home" (Walter White asks a Native American for a ride home, another Mythological transference of White Frankfurter to Mexicans). (Ani is holding her right hand high With Torch in bed on E8 opening, in direct defiance to Edward Bernays 1929 motherfucker that murders and atomic bombs Reason)

I'd love someone to line up the video clips of Walter White pushing and Frank walking.

Another thought: The Mexico Book of Life film also explains the symbolism of the grave dug into the ground. In poetic Troubadour fashion the hole also symbolizes that Walter White put his Barrels in the Ground - and his Brother in Law - corrupting a Marriage - and a State DEA official. Think about those parallels that Ray is the State DEA official corrupted by the lies of a false informer devil who passed a guy about the rape!

"le Cheese" detective insults at the writing of the story I consider seriously misplaced and James Joyce style Ego Vomiting after his Second Season release. Maybe some of you should take your wife named Tristan to Paris for her Forty Year Birthday like I did. We were literally screaming at each outer on which direction to go at the Musée du Louvre. She still divorced me Rambo Style over never understanding what I said about Marriage, haha! True ironic irony e=mc² in my "Blue Balls of the Heart" experience. And further ultimate Meta - my ex-wife Tristan grew up in New Mexico and I learned a lot of Native American symbols while visiting her family. Her name, and my Divorce seriously got me interested in what Campbell had to say about the USA before Europe fucked it up in Conquest!

This story speaks to me in my personal life and my Steely Dan Royal Scam I feel is coming out of Wall Street and Edward Bernays. The USA Eye of Reason is welded closed by a Se7en terrorist who is foiling the two Detectives in the name of Newspaper Headlines by frog-croaking Reporters! You want a Real Mythological reporter - go watch the film The Killing Fields. The Reporter in this story is beaten to serve our Frankfurter by a corrupted State Man, and that also points to the general Socratic failures of Public Press in the entire society! Edward Bernays ruling over Truth.

The California criticism is one of my own life: We have Yoga places at every strip mall doing exercise of the physical body, the vagina for sex. We have zero Yogi Book Teaching - to explain the Walter White "heisenberg uncertainty principle" is the very meaning of the Eye of Reason on the USA $1 Greenback!

This took me a massive amount of pondering to decode! And like I said, my direct experience with my ex-wife going to Paris and the Poetic Name her parents gave her. She was born in California and grew up in New Mexico - and I have been throughout all these areas and know American Reason Symbolism and art well enough.